> it's hard enough to get some people to title their blog posts :-)
> --[[smcv]]
+## Patches pending merge
+
* If a spammer posts a comment, it is either impossible or hard to clean
up via the web. Would be nice to have some kind of link on the comment
that allows trusted users to remove it (using the remove plugin of
> Won't the remove plugin refuse to remove internal pages? This would be
> a good feature to have, though. --[[smcv]]
-## Patches pending merge
+ > Here, FWIW, is the first ikiwiki comment spam I've seen:
+ > <http://waldeneffect.org/blog/Snake_bite_information/#blog/Snake_bite_information/comment_1>
+ > So that took about 10 days...
+ > --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Implemented in my 'comments' branch, please review. It turns out
+ >> [[plugins/remove]] is happy to remove internal pages, so it was quite
+ >> easy to do. --[[smcv]]
+
+* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
+ should probably be shared
+
+ > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
+ > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
+ > complex. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > There's still goto. You have a branch for that. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Won't fix
+
+* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
+ pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
+ Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
+ would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
+ being posted.
+
+ > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
+ > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
+ > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
+ > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
+ > mouths :-) )
+ >
+ > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
+ > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
+ > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
+ > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
+ > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
+ > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
+ > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Done
* The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address
as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs
> Fixed in my comments branch by d0d598e4, 3feebe31, 9e5f504e --[[smcv]]
-## Won't fix
-
-* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
- should probably be shared
-
- > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
- > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
- > complex. --[[smcv]]
-
-* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
- pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
- Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
- would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
- being posted.
-
- > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
- > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
- > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
- > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
- > mouths :-) )
- >
- > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
- > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
- > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
- > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
- > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
-
- > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
- > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
- > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
-
-## Done
* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID